Carey Mulligan in An Education
Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures
Most actresses wait their whole career for a breakout role. And 24-year-old Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan knows it. Hers was Jenny, the lead character in the Lone Scherfig film An Education, which was adapted from the Lynn Barber memoir about a teenager who falls head over heels [...]
Sam Taylor-Wood's "Nowhere Boy," a portrait of the young John Lennon, will serve as opening night film at the Nashville Film Festival, whichs runs from Apr. 15-22.
The festival will be held at the Regal Green Hills Cinema.
"What better way to kick off eight days of storytelling, creativity, collaboration and music than with a film celebrating [...]
LOS ANGELES— Jeff Bridges will never live down the Dude, nor does he want to.
Gramercy Films
Jeff Bridges as the hapless Dude in the Coen brothers’ “Big Lebowski.”
“This’ll really tie the room together,” Mr. Bridges said, making a “Big Lebowski” reference even as he accepted an award for playing Bad Blake in “Crazy Heart” at [...]
Award-winning director David Anspaugh (Rudy, Hoosiers) has finalized an agreement to direct Little Red Wagon, a feature film written by Patrick Sheane Duncan (Mr. Holland's Opus) and inspired by the true story of 12-year-old homeless youth advocate Zach Bonner. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation (Templeton.org) under the auspices of its Philanthropy Project, and produced [...]
'(500) Days of Summer' filmmaker wants to talk to 'Avatar' team about making the superhero movie in 3-D.
New director Marc Webb, who took home a Best Screenplay award for "(500) Days of Summer" Friday night at the Independent Spirit Awards, wouldn't reveal any secrets on the red carpet, but he did say that he's [...]
Walt Disney Pictures
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in “Alice in Wonderland.”
Into the dark you tumble in “Alice in Wonderland,” Tim Burton’s busy, garish and periodically amusing repo of the Lewis Carroll hallucination “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” It’s a long fall turned long haul, despite the Burtonian flourishes — the pinch of cruelty, the [...]
Scott Garfield
America Ferrera and Lance Gross get married, an event that shakes up their families in “Our Family Wedding.”
LIKE weddings, wedding movies have their traditions: the dress is white and, usually, so are the characters.
Fox Searchlight’s “Our Family Wedding,” which opens this Friday, subverts that custom with a cast that includes Forest Whitaker, Carlos [...]
GKIDS
A scene from “The Secret of Kells.”
There is a lot to look at in “The Secret of Kells.” Nearly every frame of this 75-minute animated feature is dense with curlicued and cross-hatched patterns and figures. Your eye travels over Celtic crosses and through forest glades, studies architectural schematics and drinks in delicately washed landscapes. The [...]
Magnolia Pictures
Gabriel Casseus in “Harlem Aria.”
“Harlem Aria,” a follow-your-dreams fable of surpassing sentimentality, opens with the words “Once upon a time” and closes by noting that the hero’s destiny “has not yet been written.” In between, the tale of Anton (Gabriel Casseus), a slow-witted laundry worker, unfolds with the speed and treacliness of molasses rolling [...]
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